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Hi guys,

I have read AH.com on and off this past year and have decided to finally make a profile, so I could participate.

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone here was familiar with the Franco Prussian war of 1870?

To anyone who is I want to ask the following:
From what (limited) research I have done, France's resounding defeat was quite a surprise for the other European powers at the time, as most of them viewed France as the strongest power in continental Europe (as it had historically been so for centuries) and the victory of Prussia (and later unified Germany) led the other powers primarily the UK to view them as the new biggest threat on the continent (replacing France) leading to things like the France-Russia alliance and the Entente Cordiale between France and the UK. What I am wondering is what if the leaders of the UK, with the Franco-Prussian war on the horizon, managed to correctly predict the Prussian victory and moved to militarily support France? Would the Prussian army and its maneuver warfare crush the British as well as the French or would the Anglo-French alliance be victorious? Or would the Prussians back down from war in the first place once it becomes clear the UK would intervene? In any case how do you think this would shape the rest of the 19th and early 20th centuries?
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